Managing Datastores

Managing
Datastores

Datastores are logical containers used by the HX Data Platform to manage your storage use and storage resources. Datastores are where the host places virtual disk files and other VM files.
Datastores hide the specifics of physical storage devices and provide a uniform model for storing VM files.

You can add, refresh the list, edit name and size, delete, mount, and unmount datastores from either the HX Connect or HX Data Platform Plug-in UIs.

Adding Datastores

Datastores are logical containers, similar to file systems, that hide specifics of physical storage and provide a uniform
model for storing VM files. You can also use datastores to store ISO images and VM templates.

Enter a name for the datastore. vSphere Web Client enforces a 42 character limit for the datastore name. Assign each datastore
a unique name.

Step 4

Specify the datastore size. Choose GB or TB from the drop-down list.

Step 5

Specify the data blocksize. From HX Connect, choose 8K or 4K. Default is 8K. In the HX Data Platform Plug-in, the default is assumed. For VDI workloads, default is 4k.

Step 6

Click OK to accept your changes or Cancel to cancel all changes.

Step 7

Verify the datastore. Click the Refresh icon if needed to display your new datastore.

From HX Data Platform Plug-in, Click the Manage > Datastores > Hosts tab to see the mount status of the new datastore.

If you check the datastore through the vSphere Client application, host > Configuration> Datastores, the Drive Type is listed as Unknown. This is expected vSphere behavior, to list NFS datastores as Unknown.

Editing
Datastores

A HX Data Platform datastore can be modified using the edit (pencil) option. Edit options are:

Change the datastore name.

Note

Do not rename datastores with controller VMs.

Change the datastore storage allocation. That is, the size of the datastore.